Re: Problems with Hylafax 4.0pl0 under aix 3.2.5

[Steve Williams <steve@genie96.com>]

Howdy,

I am the supplier of the AIX binary.

It looks like you haven't read the INSTALL notes for AIX very carefully.

Also, the web page FAQ probably answers some of your questions.  I will
try to help, but I don't have access to anything, as I am at home right
now.

> Hello,
>   I am having trouble starting Hylafax on my aix machine. I apologize if my
> problems have already been answered somewhere in the mailing list archive. An
> extensive search provided me with no clues, hence I am seeking help here.
> 
> First, here's what I did:
>   I downloaded and installed the binary distribution
> hylafax-aix3.2.5-v4.0pl0.cpio.gz on my machine. The machine is an IBM RS6000
> laptop model number N40 and runs aix 3.2.5
> 
>   After performing the cpio extraction, I executed the faxsetup and
> faxaddmodem scripts and everything was reported to be ok (except warnings
> about unavaliabiliy of /bin/vgetty and /bin/egetty programs.
> 
> 	faxaddmodem was run as "faxaddmodem tty1"
>  
> Here are the problems that I am having:
>   running the command faxmodem tty1 reports that "FIFO: open: No such device
> or address"
>   
> 	running "hfaxd -i 4459 -o 4457" seems to have no effect because a ps
> listing after that indicates there is no hfaxd process running.
> 

You HAVE to get hfaxd running before anything will work.  If you are only
trying to start hfaxd, then THAT IS WRONG.  There is a process called
faxq that has to be started before hfaxd.

>   faxstat command reports "can not reach server at host "localhost", port
> 4459
> 
see above.
> 
>   So, overall it seems that I am unable to get the server side software
> running at all.
> 
> Also I would very much appreciate if anyone could inform me how to associate
> faxgetty program with the /dev/tty1 on a permanent basis. On my machine, the
> modem is connected and available on /dev/tty1 (and it works, because I use
> kermit successfully). Using smit to change the tty program fails because smit
> runs the command "chdev -l tty1 /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty" which is an
> incorrect syntax to the chdev command.
> 

See my INSTALL notes for AIX on how to do this.  It gives the EXACT command 
to use.  it uses the chitab command ( I think that is what it is ).

>   If it helps, I would like to inform that before downloading Hylafax, there
> was a vendor supplied software called FAXTOOL that had been installed and it
> seemed to have been configured to only use /dev/tty1 as it's port. However it
> was not working either. So I have been trying to install Hylafax, but so far
> no luck.
> 
>  Any information and pointers would be highly appreciated.
> 
Here is my the relevant parts from my /etc/rc.local


# /etc/rc.local
# Local startup commands.  This file is executed by /etc/inittab
#
# Created: 	Sun Oct 30 19:07:15 MST 1994, sew
#
# Last updated: Sun Oct 30 21:18:24 MST 1994, sew
#		- to add setrts program call
# 

# Start up the Fax Daemon
# do a ps first, to see if there is one running.  The PS includes
# the PS process, so we need to subtract 1 to get the math correct

num_faxd=`ps -ef | grep faxq | wc -l`
if [ $num_faxd -eq 1 ]; then
	/usr/local/sbin/faxq > /dev/console 2>&1 # start fax 
fi

num_hfaxd=`ps -ef | grep hfaxd | wc -l`
if [ $num_hfaxd -eq 1 ]; then
	/usr/local/sbin/hfaxd -i hylafax -o fax > /dev/console 2>&1 # listen\
fi

# Hack to get faxgetty into inittab
num_faxgetty=`ps -ef | grep faxgetty | wc -l`
if [ $num_faxgetty -eq 1 ]; then
	# the pdisable & chdev is to make sure no-one has played in 
	# smit, not knowing what they are doing.
        pdisable tty1 ; chdev -l tty1 -a login=disable ; sleep 2
	/etc/chitab "tty1:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty1"
fi
	
-- 
	Steve Williams, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
	Genie Computer Systems Inc.
	steve@genie96.com